St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-06-20

pell-mell to camp meeting on a Sum
day and turning holy day into a
holiday, or making picnic of it, OF tax
ing it III as many would take in a cir
Gus. But SO far as proper sports and
paStimeS and amuSementS are con-
cerned, there is no wrong in them. The
difficulty is to keep within the bounds
of moderation. Imagine few friends
saying one to another when a little
after, 10 o'clock in the evening has ar
rived: II have had enough, my brothers
| am going home to bed!' and yet would
it not often be better for their health to
that ruleth his own spirit is greater
than he who taketh city," 1t is this
running after pleasure, seeking it at all
hazards, which plays the fool with so
many, and wrecks their manhood here
and their souls forever.
L wish could see my text applied be-
tween labor and capital. Twice has
America been deluged with blood and
great questions have been settled by the
sword. Thank God the day of arbitra-
ton has come, and let us hope come to
stay, for there are still other problems
to be solved on the soil of this western
world, and among those the relationship
between capital and labor takes an inn
pOrtant place. We know of the unrest
to-day. Labor is organized. Capital is
organized. For what? Mutual protec-
ton. 1t may be in part, but aggreyiOusly
as well. st. Paul has strike. Carpen-
tiers ask for nine hours work per day,
and while their fellow-workmen, the
brickmaSOnS, work but nine hours, they
have a right to ask for the same time.
1t may be incOnvenient at the present
but matters will settle themselves all
right, and If less hours work per day can
be brought about without too great
an Jury to the business world in the
end it means employment for more peO-
pie, less men out of work, more time for
recreation and for study, and should
mean more time spent with the family,
less work for the wife, happier homes
and better attendance at church OH
the Lords day. And yet strikes and
lGck-OutS and bOycOtting and blacklist
ing are deplOrable and wretched con-
trivances, and would never take place
if both sides would meet as friends and
brothers i'll the spirit of my text and be
willing to say, Il have enough, my
brother: keep that thou hast unto thy
self" God pity the men who can't say
it, who want it all their way, everything
for themselves. SOon.they will get
place no larger than the next man.
Their graves will not hold much
more than their neighbors'. There
are some men who are never sat
isfied. They will never say II have
enough, my BROTHER not even when the
icy hand of death is feeling for their
heart strings. If one person has all the
cream the other must take SKINNED
milk. Now, is it not better if both can
have good milk and be satisfied? Oh,
that we cOuid rppopniza moro fuIly the
fatherhOOd of God and the brotherhood
ofman; then on the one hand we should
have a due consideration given to the
eXigencieS of business, the close cOmpe-
tition, the small margins, the heavy
risk and the constant anxiety of many
an employer: and, on the other hand.
there would be more attention to the
just claims of labor and a desire to be as
liberal in time and wages as safe bust
ness will possibly allow one to be. Car
rying out the grand principle, so pro-
ductive to human happiness, "Do unto
others as you would that they should do
unto yOu.''